I hope you all can print off your comments on this blog and then use them to wipe away your tears on election day, all while screaming inane non sequiturs like “Marxism.”

Small business supports Sen McCain because he will lower taxes and simplify the tax code, and diminish regulation. This is the opposite of Sen Obama, who will raise taxes, increase mandates and restrictions, and alter the tax code to a much more redistributionist scheme, e.g. the ‘infinity social security tax’. I see this list in keeping with that view.

Sen Obama has opened the door to comparisons with previous public officials, by saying that Sen McCain is a retread of Pres. Bush. I do not think this is true, as John McCain famously corrected Pres. Bush and altered the Iraq strategy with the surge, with good success, which now Sen Obama admits. Sen Obama has admitted his error and now , in my opinion, had taken the position adopted by Sen McCain 3 years ago.

Is Sen Obama a retread of a previous politician?

Some folks have mentioned Pres Carter, which has some merit, in that he was elected on a clean up Washington agenda after Wategate, and coasted in on an adulatory press.

Perhaps, a closer comparison would be Henry Wallace, VP with FDR, in terms of political thinking, however.

All I had to read was the first small business listed above. TimeLine Recruiting…Although located in Columbia, TimeLine belongs to Maxim Healthcare Services which is the largest hralthcare staffing company in the United States….They spend time and money in Washington lobbying people like McCain to ensure their corporate power and money. The Carl Icahn’s of healthcare, slashing budgets, cutting costs, and denying nurses the right to organize. These are big time corporate players who want McCain in their back pockets and they’re scared to death that Obama might just do what is right with American healthcare.

I don’t even want to look at some of the other small business tycoons listed.

I have worked in medicine and health care in 9 states for over 20 years. Obama’s plan for health care is not good for the states, the US government provided health care system (Medicare for example) or the individual.

We would be heading to the Canadian system, while their patients are escaping to us! Example: there are more MRIs in one hospital in a small city in SW MO than in all of the Canadian province of British Columbia. Same with CT scanners. This can become an important issue if your child has a concussion at the next soccer game and needs a head CT/MRI.

Maxim Health care staffing provides short term coverage for hospitals and to my knowledge is not involved in collective bargaining disputes, just provides workers short term to hospitals that are short of nurses. Obama’s plan to tax contract workers such as this at very high rates (increasing the social security tax to 12.5% on all income) will make it tougher to get these workers. Thus, Obama-care puts Maxim out of business and short staffs hospitals, hurting patients. Not a good thing, in my opinion.

N. Kasoff - GW Bush has the honors of being the worst president of your lifetime. Last I check the stock market is below what it was in 2001 when he took over. We have gone through two recessions since he took office and goverment spending has far outpaced inflation. Lets don’t get started on gasoline or international affairs.

About all he has accomplished is invading Iraq and attempted to remove Al qaeda in Afganistan. Both have failed.

Dwight Scharnhorst is a photographer? Gee…I wonder if he’ll photograph my commitment ceremony??

LOL

Hey Greg do you know who Jimmy Carter is? He gets the top award for worst president of our lifetime or even ever……… Obama will give him his second term!

Jimmy Carter: Lost American political will, resurgent communism around the globe, high gas prices and lines at the pumps due to restricted supply and Arab oil embargo, high inflation, high taxes, low productivity, stagflation, anemic military, weakness at home and abroad, political hostage situation in Iran with paralysis and weakness in the oval office.

George Bush: vigorous response to terrorist attack, success looming in Iraq, initial success with renewed challanges in Afghanistan, high prices at the pump, but no restricted supply, overspending in Congress without enough use of veto pen. Excellent supreme court nominees. Strong political will with inspired leaders as friends in Germany, Italy, and UK. Nuclear disarmament in N Korea by using council of nations to apply pressure. Successful nuclear disarmament in Libya.

Verdict: Carter is worst president by far, in a landslide.

It’s always been upsetting to see people defend Bush’s presidency, but it feels especially embarrassing at this point, so far in - when so much of the country and the world detests him. You sort of wonder how you could live in the same culture with someone so detached from reality with completely misplaced priorities.

Hey AJH I agree so why don’t you leave! If you read his post he gave the good and the bad of the Bush Presidency. For Carter it was just bad..